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EDITORIAL Editor JEFF SYKES jeff@yesweekly.com Contributors KRISTI MAIER JOHN ADAMIAN RICH LEWIS KASHIF STONE STEVE MITCHELL BILLY INGRAM PAT BERRYHILL ALLISON STALBERG

We never know why artists create art; yet all art is an attempt to make peace with the world: to express, to share, to find some kind of order in our experience. Faced with a traumatizing and humiliating experience, SHERRILL ROLAND turned to art.

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Book artist MARY BETH BOONE has been a professional artist for 35 years. While attending as an art major in UNCG’s undergraduate school and then getting her masters at the University of South Carolina, Boone made books as a hobby and for gifts 10 MEET YOUR MUSLIM NEIGHBOR is an event created for

anyone and everyone to learn about Islam from local Muslims.

11 DEMOCRAT MICHAEL GARRET is running against incumbent Republican state Sen. Trudy Wade for her current seat in District 27. The district covers two-thirds of Guilford County and parts of west Greensboro.

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This time next week we will know, I hope, who will be our next president. What we will not know, however, is what else the ELECTION will have decided.

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CHUCK LEAVELL is a piano player who has been touring and recording with the Rolling Stones for over 30 years. Leavell was also a member of the Allman Brothers Band, and he’s played with dozens of others — Train, John Mayer, the Black Crowes, Eric Clapton, George Harrison and a bunch more.

27 After a holiday of scares and ghouls, Twin City Stage is livening the mood with a classic love story. ... SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, adapted from Jane Austen’s novel.

30 As anyone who’s seen the long lines for her ice cream “sammiches” knows, Christine Catania is the (ICE) QUEEN of the Triad’s renaissance in vehicular cuisine.

32 Owners Rick Robinson and Ken Priest were looking for a good location to open a new RISE location in Greensboro and heard about the new building being finished in Friendly Center just between Whole Foods and the Apple Store.

33 In a fun, hush-hush move, CRAFTED-THE ART OF THE TACO Winston-Salem slid open its doors for the final day of its soft opening over the weekend.

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FALL-A-CAPELLA DR. CLARIBEL, MS. ETTA AND WHAT: The UNCG Spartones present

WHAT: Come join us for our very first, Sip & Paint Nite with Painting with a Twist, with wine, finger foods and painting! Additional food is available for purchase. Lots of Fun, Games and Prizes! If you’re never experienced, Painting with A Twist, you don’t want to miss out! We look forward to seeing you there!

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Food Freaks Beer Geeks.

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Fall-A-Capella! A night of fun and beautiful music including guest groups and a raffle.

The UNCG Spartones have been entertaining the Triad area since 1997 and want you to be there for yet another phenomenal concert!

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: UNCG Auditorium.

480 Tate St., Greensboro.

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Carolina presents four encore performances of its popular production that glimpses into the lively relationships between sisters and brothers.

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Triad Stage UpStage Cabaret.

232 Elm Street, Greensboro.

MORE: $24 admission.

WHAT: When this great band performed for Fiddle & Bow in 2014 they had everyone on their feet by the end of the night. Matuto is a quartet based around the core of Clay Ross on guitar and Rob Curto on accordion.

Joining Clay and Rob on this tour will be Aynsley Powell on drums and Itaiguara Brandao on bass. This is a really exciting band and they’re not to be missed!

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Muddy Creek Music Hall.

5455 Bethania Road, Winston-Salem.

MORE: $16-$18 tickets.

ROSEMARY HERB TASTING WHAT: Guest Chef Steve Terrill will be preparing three wonderful rosemary inspired dishes in our Harvest Learning Cafe.

Stop by for a sample of Onion Roesmary Soup, Rosemary Foccacia Bread, and Rosemary Popsicles.

WHEN: 8:30 a.m.

WHERE: Greensboro Farmers Curb Market. 501 Yanceyville Street, Greensboro.

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WheRe: World of Beer.

1310 Westover Terrace, Greensboro.

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Foundation for the Prevention of Domestic Violence, Inc. will celebrate their 8th Year Anniversary and 2nd Annual Paint the City Purple Campaign. Come and enjoy live music, dancing, film, wine bar, and heavy hor d’oeuvres.

WheN: 6 p.m.

WheRe: The Oak Branch Conference & Event Center. 23 Oak Branch Drive, Greensboro.

MoRe: $15 admission.

AIR SUPPLY WhAT: Celebrating 40 years of beautiful music Air Supply returns to Winston-Salem.

The original duo of Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock return for a night of soft rock love songs like ‘Lost in Love,’ ‘All Out of Love,’ ‘Making Love Out of Nothing At All’ and many more.

WheN: 8 p.m.

WheRe: Reynolds Auditorium.

301 North Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem.

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WhAT: It’s going to be another beautiful day at Revolution Mill Events Center. We’ll have 15 quality food trucks, live music and some kid’s activities. AND YES, the new apartments are ready for viewing! Come check out all the work that has gone on this summer at Revolution Mill!

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WhAT: From Superheroes on the big screen to our hometown heroes, hear the music that celebrates extraordinary strengths! Come dressed in your superhero costumes and join the Symphony as we salute comic book champions from films as well as our local firefighters, police, and veterans in a special on-stage tribute!

WheN: 3 p.m.

WheRe: Reynolds Auditorium.

301 North Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem.

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MARY BETH BOONE-BOOK IT

BY ALLISON STALBERG

Book artist Mary Beth Boone has been a professional artist for 35 years.

While attending as an art major in UNCG’s undergraduate school and then getting her masters at the University of South Carolina, Boone made books as a hobby and for gifts. In 1994, she won a grant to go to the Penland School of Crafts where she learned book and paper making.

After learning how to use a letterpress, Boone got her own letterpress.

“They are pretty hard to come by,” said Boone. “If you do come by one, often times they will be messed up so you have to fix them. I’m not all that mechanically inclined, so I was a little bit leery of the process but I actually found one.”

The printer press belonged originally to the Greensboro Printing Company. Owned

by Ogden Deal who passed away in 1985, his family sold the printer press to Boone.

Boone’s prints and books often feature plants and birds. She collects natural objects for inspiration such as feathers, wasp nest pieces and seeds from her garden.

“I love pods and things like that. I tend to be drawn to things that are fragile and ephemeral,” she said.

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as drawing and sewing, but she chose to make books.

“I like putting things together. I learned to sew when I was like 12-years-old and my mom sewed, all the women in my family sewed or did needle craft or made quilts,” said Boone. “My dad built furniture. I was around that all my life, so I’ve always enjoyed taking various components and putting them together.

“You have to do that when you make a book. When you have a blank book like this, it’s really nice to use it. I love making books that have imagery and messages in them, but I also love making books you can then use as journals and they sort of take on a life of their own when someone starts using them.”

Boone’s favorite part of her craft is in the production.

“It’s very rewarding to come up with an idea and then explore it and see what happens through that process,” said Boone. “The business of art is very tedious, but you could work isolated and just do that and some people might be satisfied by that, but I do like my work out there because you learn from letting people see what you’re doing and talking to them about it and that sort of thing.” !

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[SCUTTLEBUTT] Items from across the Triad and beyond

GREENSBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY ANNOUNCES THOMAS BERRY AWARD RECIPIENTS

The Greensboro Public Library announces Andrew Levitt and Randal Scott Romie as recipients of the 2016 Thomas Berry Award. The Thomas Berry Award recognizes an individual or organization that has implemented sustainable and outstanding environmental programs or has engaged in re-imagining the human-earth relationship through scholarship, writing, poetry or the arts.

This award honors the legacy of one of Greensboro’s most influential authors, Thomas Berry. Berry was a Catholic priest, cultural historian and “Earth scholar.” He was the author of many books including The Great Work: Our Way into the Future.

Among advocates of ecospirituality, he is famous for proposing that a deep understanding of the history and functioning of the evolving universe is a necessary inspiration for our own effective response as individuals and as a species.

Andrew Levitt co-created a performance piece, “The Meadow Across the Creek: Words from Thomas Berry” for the Thomas Berry Centennial and is the author of All the Scattered Leaves of the Universe: Journey and Vision in Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Work of Thomas Berry. He serves on the Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World’s education council and as faculty for “The Inner Life of the Child in Nature” series. A nature poet, Andrew’s collection of poetry, Heron Mornings, will be published in 2017. As Dr. Merryandrew, he currently works as a clown doctor in the Pediatric unit at Moses Cone Memorial Hospital.

Landscape architect Randal Scott Romie, ASLA, has devoted nearly 2,000 volunteer hours to Greensboro Beautiful, a non-profit volunteer organization that conserves and enhances the beauty and ecology of the area. He has been widely recognized for his designs and installations. Among dozens of projects, he has helped to beautify sites along I-85 and created a master plan and renovated gardens for the Bicentennial Garden/Caldwell Park. In addition, Romie helped gain passage of the city’s tree preservation ordinance and served as co-chair for the city’s Advisory Commission for Trees.

The Thomas Berry Award ceremony will be held at 3 pm, Sunday, November 6, at the Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch Library, 1420 Price Park Rd. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information on Library events and resources please visit: www.greensborolibrary.org

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GREENSBORO SWARM SELECT FIVE PLAYERS IN 2016 NBA D-LEAGUE DRAFT

The Greensboro Swarm, the NBA Development League affiliate of the Charlotte Hornets, selected five players in the 2016 NBA D-League draft. Shonn Miller, Ky Howard, Mike Anderson, Ron Mvouika and Keala King were selected with the Swarm’s first through fifth picks.

The Swarm’s first ever draft pick, Shonn Miller, a 6-7 forward, played his final season of eligibility at the University of Connecticut. In 36 games he averaged 12.3 points and 5.2 rebounds while shooting 59 percent from the field. Prior to his time with the Huskies, he played three seasons at Cornell University.

Ky Howard, a 6-4 guard, played all four seasons of his collegiate career at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. During his senior season with the Highlanders he averaged 12.7 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists over the course of 34 games.

Mike Anderson, a 6-4 guard, most recently played overseas with the Surrey Scorchers of the British Basketball League where he averaged 12.8 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists in 10 games. Prior to his time in Europe, he played at the University of Washington in 31 games for the Huskies during the 2014-15 season.

Ron Mvouika, a native of France, finished his college career at St. Johns University.

The 6-5 guard/forward played in 32 games for the Red Storm, averaging 8.5 points, 4.0 rebounds and 1.8 assists during his final season.

Keala King, a 6-5 guard, played 34 games during his senior year of college at the University of Pikeville, averaging 15.9 points and 6.1 rebounds for the Bears. He has recently played overseas in Spain, Thailand and the Philippines.

The new NBA Development League affiliate of the Charlotte Hornets, the Greensboro Swarm will begin play in the 2016-17 season as a member of Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. All home games during the inaugural season will be played at the renovated Fieldhouse at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. Season tickets are on sale now for as low as $7 per ticket per game, with club seats starting as low as $15 per ticket per game and courtside seats as low as $50 per ticket per game.

Fans purchasing season tickets will save an average of over 20% per ticket per game off of single-game tickets, which will go on sale in the fall. For more information or to purchase season tickets, visit gsoswarm. com or call 336-907-3600. !

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Islamic Center of Greensboro wants you to ‘Meet your Muslim Neighbor’

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or a lot of Americans, their first impression of Islam comes from the television. Especially after the events of 9/11, Muslims have struggled against a narrative of extremism, violence and demonization.

In places like Greensboro though, that does not have to be the case. Meet your Muslim Neighbor is an event created for anyone and everyone to learn about Islam from local Muslims.

Imam Eesaa Wood, now regional manager with the Furqaan Project, wanted a way for Greensboro’s Islamic Center to have an open house. He did research and found Raleigh’s Meet your Muslim Neighbor. Loving the event, he decided to bring the idea to Greensboro.

“I said okay, great, I can do this every month,” said Wood. “I went back to Greensboro and I decided to present the idea to the governing body of the Islamic Center, they liked it, they let me do it, they made me the president.

“For about five years now we’ve been doing this every single month. We’ve had easily over a thousand, maybe as high as two thousand people visit the Islamic Center either on these events or they’ve called and scheduled our private tour.”

Wood recalls groups of all kinds having visited: 2nd graders, elderly, Jewish, athe-

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ist, Christian, ex-Muslims, college students and non-Muslims. They also go out into the community and speak if someone’s not comfortable coming to the Islamic Center.

“There are four main sections of Meet your Muslim neighbor, there’s an introduction to the building and the community, then there’s the presentation on the faith of Islam basics, then there is food always food, very important,” said Wood.

“You may not remember my name by the end of it, but you’ll remember the food. There is a Q and A session followed by an opportunity to watch one of our daily prayer services. It’s great, especially for college students who need to write a paper and visit a religious facility. They get everything all in one.”

The goal of Meet your Muslim Neighbor is to give knowledge of the Muslim faith for those who want to learn. Wood wants it to be known that the Meet your Muslim Neighbor’s goal is not to convert or change anyone’s religion.

“If someone did want to become a part of the faith, that is their business and more power to them, we are more than happy to help,” said Wood. “That is not a requirement though, and the person doesn’t need to fear that that’s what we are doing by inviting them into the center.

“If we offer someone a Quran, we are not trying to push our sacred scripture on them, it’s just we want you to have free

The Islamic Center of Greensboro is opening its doors to the public. access to read it. Getting people to come to this tour and getting material from our faith, the assumption is always that you’re trying to change my religion.

“That shouldn’t at all be the case. I don’t have that in my heart at all. I want guidance for everyone, but I want them to freely accept it.”

Wood wants to show as many as possible that Islam is not accurately represented by the extremism and terrorism often described in today’s news and politics.

“I know just from the look on the person’s face when they leave that everyone leaves there with an experience like ‘wow, I have a lot in common with these people,’” said Wood. “‘They’re just like me, they don’t have any different outlook on the world in terms of what they want in life,’ which is just everyone wants to live in success, abundance and peace.”

A highlight for Wood from Meet your Muslim Neighbor was when a woman from Evangelical faith came out with more interest in her own faith.

“What she had learned about Muslims that day caused her to be more interested in her own religion,” said Wood. “We have so much in common and so many of the questions that were answered and concepts that were brought up to her really kind of challenged her own thinking about her own religion.

“Interacting with other faith communities that have very similar concepts and ideas, if it doesn’t cause a person to become interested in the faith, it does at the

very least have them leave more interested in their own faith.”

Wood’s vision is for all Islamic Centers in North America to hold a Meet your Muslim Neighbor every month. He wants the Muslim American community to become the voice of their religion.

“The Islamic Centers have to come to a conclusion, not only is it an obligation for us as the Muslim community to tell people about our faith but we don’t live in a climate anymore where this is something we can even consider as optional,” said Wood.

“They are in every major city in America; even small towns in the middle of nowhere in West Virginia have Islamic Centers. It doesn’t take very much for your community to cook a nice meal, invite some people in, let them eat some food with you and give them some basic round down of a skeleton of the faith of Islam.”

Wood stepped down two years ago and now Tychus Carter, President of Islamic Center outreach, took over the project.

Carter hopes to bring more consistency and volunteers to Meet your Muslim Neighbor.

“I would like other people in the community that are out there to represent and I’d also like to get the youth involved as well,” said Carter. “Just refine and amplify this event to just be the best experience they can have.”

Interested in going? Meet your Muslim Neighbor happens every first Saturday of the month at the Islamic Center of Greensboro. !

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Garrett takes on power broker Wade for senate seat Rucho Senate 2 - District 27

BY ADEN HIZKIAS Democrat Michael Garret is running against incumbent Republican state Sen. Trudy Wade for her current seat in District 27. The district covers two-thirds of Guilford County and parts of west Greensboro.

“I am running to be the people’s voice, work for them and represent their interest,” Garrett said.

The small business owner works for a marketing firm in Greensboro and hopes to win the support of voters on Nov. 8.

Garrett, who previously has been a registered Republican, switched his affiliation to Democrat in 2010. He said that he is not interested in the political game but cares about serving the community.

Garrett has two main positions that he hopes to raise awareness for in the state senate: education and the economy. On education policy, Garrett said that there is a need to increase teacher pay to the national average and to reverse the trend of North Carolina losing teachers to other states.

He believes that the economy needs to grow and said that he will advocate for the people of Guilford County and fight to attract good quality jobs.

“I’ve really seen how the state government and this General Assembly can have a negative impact, they can stand in the way of progress,” said Garrett.

Garrett opposed Wade’s Senate Bill 36 that would have re-districted Greensboro’s City Council.

He said that Raleigh had no place telling residents of Greensboro and Guilford County how they should be redistricted. A major component in his decision to run was that he felt the Republican-dominated General Assembly too often veered into political power ploys and lost focus on the people they represent.

Garrett believes that incumbent Trudy Wade, a former county commissioner and Greensboro city council member, is not responsive to voters. He feels strongly that public servants need to listen to the people.

“I was surprised that she sponsored legislation like that, because a lot of Republicans would advocate for local control,” said Garrett.

He said that the community was not asking for the redistricting measure and he believes that his opponent does not have her constituent’s best interests at heart.

“I’ve always believed that government is best at the

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What the election won’t decide

his time next week we will know, I hope, who will be our next president.

What we will not know, howD.G. Martin ever, is what else the election will have decided.

Contributor Both major candidates told us over and over again how terrible the other candidate was. They persuaded us. As a result, the new president will have no post-election honeymoon. The war to defeat the new president in 2020 begins November 9.

The negative personal focus of both campaigns made for little substantive discussion of the real challenges and decisions facing our country. Therefore, the winner has no clear mandate for action on urgent matters such as: Immigration.

Both candidates talked incessantly about immigration. Trump told us how important it was to stop the flow of illegal migrants from Mexico. He promised to

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strong Senate Republican minority if there build a 2,000-mile wall. But he gave us is a thin Democratic majority. Democrats, nothing in the way of a workable, practical, whether they are in the majority or in the and sound immigration program. minority, will be determined to thwart Hillary Clinton properly criticized Donald Trump’s appointment of any justice who Trump’s ranting. But neither she nor Trump would swing the Supreme Court to the made an effort to develop and sell a plan right. Whoever is elected president, the to bring the country together to adjust Supreme Court apand then enforce its pointment process immigration laws. promises to be a We are left without a mess. program that could Foreign Affairs. pass the Senate and Both major candidates Although Clinton the House, no matshowed a deeper ter how this year’s told us over and over understanding of congressional elections turn out or who again how terrible the foreign affairs than Trump, neither canbecomes president. didate gave us hope Supreme Court. other candidate was. that our election Both candidates results would lead to gave us hard-nosed practical, winnable political talk about solutions to the chalthe Supreme Court. lenges of Russia in Ukraine and Syria, China But neither showed a pathway to a workin the South China Sea, the Middle East or able solution to the unbelievable acrimony North Korea. surrounding court appointments. It will Race. be virtually impossible to have a Supreme During the election season, the country Court justice confirmed no matter who suffered from further deaths of young wins the presidency. If Clinton wins, her apblacks in encounters with law enforcement pointments can be blocked by the majority officers. The terrible disruptions and demin a Republican-controlled Senate or by a

onstrations that followed were agonizing reminders of how far the country has to go to deal with its racial divide. Neither candidate brought forth plans or programs to move forward on the incredibly slow resolution of our racial challenges.

Trade Policy.

Much talk there was about trade, mostly

by Trump. But both candidates parroted a growing angry consensus in the country that trading goods and services with businesses in other countries is bad for America and its people. Still, many economists believe that abandonment of ongoing trade arrangements and termination of efforts to expand international trading would harm many Americans and our economy. Thus, the day after the election, the country will have no trade policy. And there is no clear pathway to finding one that is beneficial for most Americans and can gain the support of a majority of our people.

Health Care.

Whichever candidate is elected, attention is needed for the modification or replacement of the current Affordable Care Act. But whoever is elected will find it impossible to craft a workable solution that can gain the support of the majority of Americans.

There is much more. More to assure that the angry politics of this election season will continue long after Election Day. !

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[news of the weird] Religion AdApts to technology

A network of freelance Buddhist priests in Japan last year began offering in-home, a la carte services (for those adherents who shun Chuck Shepherd temples) through Amazon in Japan, quoting fixed fees and bypassing the usual awkward deliberation over “donations.” And in September, Pastor David Taylor of Joshua Media Ministries International (St. Louis, Missouri) announced, to great fanfare, that he had “resurrected” a diabetic woman, 40 minutes after her death, by sending the lady a text message — through Facebook (though, of course, neither she nor any family member was available for an interview).

Redneck chRonicles

(1) As a dispute escalated between two brothers at their recycling plant in Bow, New Hampshire, in October, Peter Emanuel used his front-end loader to

tip over the crane being operated by Stanley Emanuel (who managed to jump out just in time). Peter was arrested. (2) Thousands flocked to the annual Roadkill Cooking Festival in Marlinton, West Virginia, in September, featuring an array of “tasting” dishes (e.g., black bear, possum, elk, snapping turtle) with a competition in which judges deducted points if the “chef” had not managed to remove all gravel or asphalt.

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— Luckily, thought Jamie Richardson of Whitehorse, Yukon, she had medical insurance for her 7-year-old Akita, who had torn a ligament in a hind leg, but it turned out that the policy, written by Canada’s largest pet insurer, Petsecure, did not cover dog injuries from “jumping, running, slipping, tripping or playing” — that is, Richardson concluded, injuries caused by “being a dog.” (After Richardson protested, Petsecure relented but, it said, only because Richardson had been a longtime customer.)

— The Way the World Works: Who is the most at fault when (a) a mother provides beer to her underage son, (b) who then,

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with a pal, gulps down a bottle of vodka and steals a car from a dealer’s lot, and (c) drunkenly crashes, leaving the pal with a catastrophic brain injury? In October, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a jury verdict that parceled out “fault,” but assigned more to the victim of the 2006 car theft (Rankin’s Garage of Paisley, Ontario) than to the mother or the driver (because Rankin’s having left the key in the car overnight made it irresistible to “teenage car thieves”).

THE JOB OF THE RESEARCHER

Charles Foster, recent recipient of the “Ig Nobel” prize in biology (and a fellow at Oxford University), has recently lived as a badger (inside a hole in Wales), an otter playing in rivers, and an “urban fox” rummaging through garbage bins in London, in addition to a red deer and (“ridiculously,” he admits) a migratory bird mapping treetop air currents — all in order to authentically experience those creatures’ lives apart from their physical appearance, which is generally all that humans know. “We have five glorious senses,” he told the Ig Nobel audience, and need to “escape the tyranny” of the visual. “Drop onto all fours,” he recommended. “Sniff the ground. Lick a leaf.”

AWESOME NUMBERS IN THE NEWS

(1) Charles Diggs, facing child pornography charges, was found with supposedly a record haul for New Jersey — 325,000 child-porn images and files at his Roselle home in October. (2) The Justice Department revealed in an October court filing that former National Security Agency contractor Harold Martin III, 51, had stolen at least 500 million pages of “sensitive government files,” bit by bit over two decades. (Bonus questions: How does no one notice, for years, and anyway, how many total pages of “sensitive government files” are there?)

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS

In October (as in supposedly every previous October since the 13th century), some British official arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice in London and paid rent to the queen for use of two properties — for the sum of “a knife, an axe, six oversized horseshoes and 61 nails,” according to reporting by Atlas Obscura. “No one knows exactly where these two pieces of land are,” the website reported, but one is in Shropshire County, and the other near the Royal Courts.

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— New York City sculptor Bryan Zanisnik, operating on a grant from an emerging-artist program of Socrates Sculpture Park in the Astoria neighborhood in Queens, recently created a 10-piece “garden” of concrete Christopher Walken heads to honor the actor, who grew up in Astoria. Said Zanisnik, “Perhaps the project suggests that Walken’s DNA was imbued into the soil of Astoria, and now Walken mushrooms are growing everywhere.”

— “To be honest,” wrote New York Times art critic Holland Cotter in his lead sentence on Oct. 7, “I wonder what a lot of people see in abstract painting.” Then, nevertheless, Carter began praising the current Guggenheim Museum collection by abstract artist Agnes Martin, highlighted by her “Untitled No. 5,” which consists of a pinkish horizontal space, on top of a yellowish horizontal space, on top of a bluish horizontal space, exactly repeated underneath except the pinkish and bluish spaces are shortened near the edges of the canvas, but not the yellowish space.

Asked Carter, “How do you approach an art empty of ... evident narratives” and “make it your own?” His unrestrained 1,600-word rave did not quite answer that, except to quote Martin’s suggestion that the visitor just “sit and look.”

PERSPECTIVE

A recent Better Business Bureau study in Canada found that, contrary to popular belief, it is the “millennial” generation and those aged 25 to 55, rather than seniors, who are more likely now to fall victim to scammers, fueled by users’ lax skepticism about new technology. If accurate, the study would account for how a Virginia Tech student in September fell for a telephone call from “the IRS” threatening her over “back taxes.” She complied with instructions from the “agent” to send $1,762 in four iTunes gift cards.

A NEWS OF THE WEIRD CLASSIC (JULY 2012)

Tennessee’s Super Breeders: Serial impregnator Desmond Hatchett, of Knoxville, has fathered (as of June 2012) at least 24 kids by at least 11 women, but he is hardly Tennessee’s most prolific. A June (2012) story (citing reporting by WMC-TV and WREG-TV in Memphis) revealed that Terry Turnage of Memphis has 23 children by 17 women, and Richard Colbert (also from Memphis) has 25 with 18 women.

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THE JUMPSUiT PROJECT SHERRill ROland’S WROngfUl COnviCTiOn dRivES HiS aRT

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e never know why artists create art; yet all art is an attempt to make peace with the world: to express, to share, to find some kind of order in our experience.

Faced with a traumatizing and humiliating experience, Sherrill Roland turned to art. He had an undergraduate degree that prepared him. Art gave him distance and in that distance, he could find a way to talk with others about what happened to him.

In August of 2012, Sherrill Roland was returning to UNC Greensboro to begin the first week of his Masters Program in Art when he received a phone call from a detective in Washington, DC. The detective advised Sherrill there was a felony warrant out for his arrest in the District of Columbia and that his best option was to turn himself in at a D.C. police station.

Sherrill had no idea what he was talking about. He had worked in the area over the summer but knew of nothing that would explain a felony warrant.

Over the next year, while attempting to focus on school, Sherrill hired lawyers and fought the case. He had been accused by someone he didn’t know, of something that couldn’t have happened. In October of 2013, after a two-day bench trial, he was convicted of four misdemeanors and sentenced to 13 months in the D.C. City Jail.

He was immediately taken to jail from the courtroom. He remained incarcerated until August of 2014. In April of 2015, while on probation, his sentence was vacated and in August of the same year his criminal case was sealed on grounds of actual innocence, that is, a judge found Sherrill innocent of all charges. Because he was found innocent and because the sentence was vacated and sealed, Sherrill has no interest in talking about the charges or the details of the case.

Legally, it was as if the case had never happened, yet Sherrill had served ten months in jail. One year after his case was sealed, Sherrill was back in the Masters Program at UNCG; he’d conceived an art project around his ordeal.

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PHOTOS BY TODD TURNER “It’s so hard to describe,” he explains.

His voice is quiet, his hands folded in his lap. His shoulders are slumped, just slightly. He’s sitting in his studio in the Gatewood Building on the UNCG campus. There’s a desk with a computer and two chairs. Part of one wall is covered in photos of cell phone screens. There’s not much else in the room but Sherrill.

And he’s wearing an orange prison jumpsuit.

“One minute you’re free and the next they’re taking your clothes and you’re standing naked in front of three correctional officers, other prisoners in cells around you.

It was unbelievable to me...and such a

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heartbreaking thing...to see the world in the light I had seen it, where I could tell the truth and be punished for it. I went from crying to not crying ‘cause I knew where I was going I definitely didn’t want to be seen crying.”

It’s impossible to say what turns someone from pain to expression, from rage to creation. In the year after his release and eventual exoneration, Sherrill found it hard to talk about his incarceration at all.

After a time, his undergraduate training in Art gave him enough tools and parts of a vocabulary to begin the process.

“When you’re released, you’re immediately faced with what you’re going to say to people. Not everyone knows what hap-

pened, not everyone knows you’ve been in jail. Do you tell people, do you hedge?

How honest can I be, how much do I hide?

You have to face the questions every day.”

He didn’t have to say anything. He could have remained quiet, out of shame or fear.

He had the right to remain silent.

In 2007, Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal shut himself up in a Chicago gallery for thirty days in a room under constant internet surveillance. In the room he placed a high powered paintball gun which anonymous internet users could use to shoot him. He called the project Domestic Tension. Bilal said, “the project was a way to provoke dialogue about the Iraq War,

the technological and remote nature of modern warfare, and what it means for Iraqis to live constantly under the threat of fire.” In the course of thirty days, over 65,000 rounds were fired at Bilal by people he never saw.

Performance Art is meant to muddy the boundaries between art and real life, between the artist and the audience.

It’s conceived to provoke spontaneous response so it carries, by definition, a certain amount of risk for both artist and audience. Socially Engaging Performance Art takes on cultural and social issues in ways that, at first, might not appear to be art. None of this has to happen in a

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Sherill Roland sets up his ‘visitation booth’ in UNCG’s Elliot Center.

gallery; it doesn’t have to look like what we think of as art at all. The nature of performance art is that it’s method and approach can change over time, adapting to new circumstances.

For Sherrill Roland, his Jumpsuit Project fits snugly within the work of other socially engaged performance artists like Wafaa Bilal and Dread Scott. The Jumpsuit Project, as Sherrill conceives it, is a way of engaging the community around him in both his story, in the illusions of control we maintain in order to live our lives, and to bring attention to the problems of mass incarceration in the United States.

For The Jumpsuit Project, Sherrill has decided to wear an orange jumpsuit while he’s on the UNCG campus every day of the academic year.

“In terms of my project, my studio is my cell. The Gatewood Art Building is my cell block. In the jail, whenever you moved off your block---to go to church, to see your lawyer---you couldn’t stop along the way.

You had to go directly there. So, whenever I leave Gatewood, my block, I can’t hesitate until I reach another building.

If someone wants to talk to me, ask me a question, they have to walk with me. I can’t stop.

“I want to initiate a conversation. I want to say, Look, I was a student here and I thought the world was one way. I thought I was in control then this thing happened to me. We live in a certain world, but there are other things going on. There are things we never see. Things I never saw.

“I want to say, you think it can’t happen to you? I was you and you could be me.

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to talk about his story in the most public way possible. At intervals he sets up a booth in the congested hallways of the Elliot University Center. It’s devised to mimic the experience family members have when visiting prisoners. You can talk to him there, ask questions. He’s there for 45 minutes and then he’s gone.

“There’s been a lot of interest, a lot of questions, but a lot of fear too ... I was scared to wear this suit, but I’m more afraid of the perception of being viewed as someone scary, as someone I’m not.

I’ve had people avoid me, run from me.

Not talk to me, not make eye contact.

“Your reaction allows you to participate.

You are part of that moment. What will it take for you to step out of your world for a minute and ask, witness, do something that helps?”

Find out more about the Jumpsuit Project and follow it as it develops here: www.jumpsuitproject.com

From March 14 to May 31, 2010, as part of a retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art, Marina Abramovic performed The Artist is Present, in which she sat immobile in a chair for the entirety of each day. Spectators were invited to take turns sitting opposite her while she made eye contact with them.

“To do absolutely nothing and have my life thrown away for it. I’d rack my brain over and over about what was said at the trial and what I could have said. What I could have done to deserve this? I turned to the Bible and I was praying for forgiveness for everything, I mean, for taking my little cousin’s bubblegum when I was eight.

“There had to be a reason, otherwise, why was I here? I really started to question why I was living. That’s the most alone you can be.”

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days without leaving the cell, food trays passed through a slot on the floor. The prisoners in charge of passing out meals picked through the trays before they delivered them, so Sherrill was always hungry.

“For the first while I tried to just hang back, figure out how things were run.

When I figured out the commissary, I’d buy these ramen noodles. That’s what I could buy, and every other night I’d make one package. You make it in the bag, you cut a slit and put in some tap water and let it sit for five minutes or so, hoping they get soft. There’s two layers in a package, so I’d share with my cell mate, one layer apiece.

That kept us going.”

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There was nothing to do all day but torment himself with what he might have said or what he might have done wrong during, or before, his trial. But, in the end, “The truth is very simple. I was pleading and there was nothing else I could say.

There’s only one way to tell the truth.”

Soon, he discovered books.

“I was crushing books when I was in there. I begged for books, watched out my slot for books coming by. I read all the books I was supposed to read in high school but didn’t. Anything I could find.

Old New Yorkers. But I was reading so fast that I burned through books.”

A few months after he went to jail, a friend’s mother bought him a subscription

to Art Forum and had it delivered to the jail. Sherrill’s eyes light up when he talks about it.

“You don’t know what that meant,” he says. “You just don’t know.”

The book that stood out for him was a book he wasn’t supposed to have. Copies were passed covertly between prisoners but, if it was discovered, it would be confiscated. This book was Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

In The New Jim Crow, Alexander asserts that the criminal justice system and the prison system, as it has been applied primarily to young, black males, is a de facto instrument of oppression. A single

conviction for a non-violent crime has, for decade upon decade, rendered young black men essentially unemployable, thus unproductive unless they turn to other means. It has disrupted African American families on a massive scale. And, it has stripped the right to vote from large numbers of young black men. The criminal justice system, to Alexander’s thinking, has replaced the Jim Crow laws of the South as a form of social control.

It isn’t difficult to see the effect this book might have upon a young black man convicted of a crime he did not commit.

The thesis of Alexander’s book, its argument and statistics, are the social foundation of The Jumpsuit Project.

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Eventually, Sherrill knew he was being released three months early for good behavior. He’d still have to be on probation in the DC area, where he knew few people.

He asked one thing from his family. He wanted to take a plane back home to Asheville.

“I gotta see clouds,” he told them. “I gotta stretch my eyes.”

Dread Scott was one of a group of artists who staged Our Grief Is Not A Cry For War at various locations in New York City in the days immediately following September 11. More than 100 artists stood silent and motionless in Union Square and Times Square.

When the entire ordeal was over, Sherrill’s record was clear but there was a three year gap in his resume. He knew he had to do something. Going back to school was not at the top of his list.

“I knew I had to work. I had to find something, but I was changed. It wasn’t just the time I’d lost.

“I’d lost two grandmothers. I’d missed my daughter being born. And those are just the things I missed. There were other things that happened to me, that I saw while I was inside. How could I go on a job interview and speak on the person I was three years ago? That person didn’t exist.”

By chance, he met one of his past art professors at an airport and they had coffee together. He began to talk about the project---an idea still vague for him--and she encouraged him. They discussed parameters, safety, the necessity for support in what would be an emotionally trying year.

For Sherrill, art now is not about making something that’s pretty, art is about survival. Art is about finding a way to reconcile his experience with the world around him and include people in that reconciliation. But, none of us can reconcile the past by avoiding it. Sherrill chose the most public path away from avoidance, by putting himself in a position where he must talk about all of it. It’s a path where his past is always in full view.

UNCG was a good location for the project because it was a safe, contained institutional environment with a lot of diversity in students and faculty. From the beginning, he had the full support of faculty. He talked with the campus police so they were aware of the project and his presence.

“It allows for a wide range of reactions in a controlled environment,” Sherrill says.

“I want to create just enough interruption in someone’s life…to be a visual reminder, a campus meme.”

He laughs quietly, with the shadow of a grin: “You can certainly see me coming.”

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For Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) in 2014 Emma Sulkowicz, a senior art student at Columbia University, carried a fifty pound mattress wherever she went on campus. She said the piece would end when the student she accused of raping her was either expelled or left the University. She carried the mattress through the school year and in her graduation ceremony.

“Normally, I’m a quiet person. I’m private. But when I have this suit on, I have to be receptive to others. It takes an emotional toll. I write about it in my journal every day.

“Friends and family members, my professors, they’re constantly checking in. They worry about my safety. They don’t want what happened before to happen again. That just because of the suit, I could be accused of something else.

They’re always asking how I’m feeling, if I’m okay.”

Sherrill shifts nervously in his chair but his hands remain clasped in his lap. He shrugs.

“I’m numb. A lot of things are tough for me to feel. I don’t get excited about much of anything. No, I don’t. My view of the world is totally different now. I may be numb to a lot of things, excitement, whatever. I lost too much. And there’s too much imagined loss. I stay back.

“I mean. I don’t know you. I didn’t know the person who accused me. I want to be the person that I was, but I know too much now. It’s like when someone runs from me in the suit: I’m telling you who the truth of who I am, but you just don’t see it. It’s a hard thing for me to feel like some kind of threat.”

Sherrill met his daughter for the first time when he got off the plane. She was nine months old. He was met with a smile.

“You figure out what moments are worth.”

He leans forward in his chair, hands clasped, elbows on his knees.

“Before, when I came to school, I knew I wanted to do art but I was all over the place. I had no interest in anything like this. Serving time changed me, but seeing my daughter that day, having a relationship with her now, that’s changed me too.

“This time, I know what I want to do and I know why. That first time was all about me, this time it’s all about other people.”

As the project continues, Sherrill speaks to classes and civic groups. He’s part of an upcoming discussion at The International Civil Rights Museum in November on incarceration. He’s going over all the letters he wrote while inside; the letters written to him. His work will be part of a thesis

show at Weatherspoon Art Museum in the spring.

He’s processing the experience in a new way; from a distance, without the veil of fear.

Through his Jumpsuit Project Facebook page, others who are incarcerated get in touch with him. Slowly, he begins to feel he’s doing something that matters.

“We had this thing, like a ritual, my cellmate and I. At the end of every day, we’d look at each other and say, ‘Congratulations.’ Because we’d made it, you know, we’d made it through one more day.”

Sherrill looks away for a moment.

“I mean, I’d like to reach a place where I don’t talk about this every day---when I’m

not continually bringing up the worst time in my life---but I think it’s the price I have to pay right now to help other people.”

The light is fading in the windows of his studio as we finish our conversation. His day on campus is coming to a close. He glances out the window and smiles.

“In the meantime, I can’t wait to leave campus every day, so I can take this off.” !

- Steve Mitchell’s short story collection, The Naming of Ghosts, is published by Press 53.

He has a deep belief in the primacy of doubt and an abiding conviction that great wisdom informs very bad movies. He’s co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, N.C. You can find him at: www.thisisstevemitchell.com NOVEMBER 2-8, 2016 YES! WEEKLY

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Pianist with a chainsaw: Rolling Stones sideman and go-to keyboardist Chuck Leavell talks trees and piano blues

BY JOHN ADAMIAN | @johnradamian

C

huck Leavell was at his chainsaw guy’s place earlier this week when he called me.

People who make a living with the subtle musculature of their fingers and the fine-boned dexterity of their hands have a reason to be cautious, and to maybe even avoid power tools.

Get those digits slammed in a door or smacked into a table corner and paychecks stop coming. Chuck Leavell isn’t so precious about his fingers — hence the chainsaw — but maybe he should be.

Leavell is a piano player who has been touring and recording with the Rolling Stones for over 30 years. Leavell was also a member of the Allman Brothers Band, and he’s played with dozens of others — Train, John Mayer, the Black Crowes, Eric Clapton, George Harrison and

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a bunch more. Leavell just got through touring with the Stones, and he went out as a member of David Gilmour’s band in the summer as well. Leavell is also on the forthcoming Stones album, Blue and Lonesome, set to be released on Dec. 2, an album that finds the Stones returning to their early inspiration as a blues band, paying homage to masters of Chicago blues. Leavell was messing around with chainsaws this week because, when he’s not out playing with musical giants, he’s heavily involved in forestry, in conservation and management of America’s woodlands. Leavell and his wife, Rose, own and operate a 3,000-acre tree farm and retreat on an old plantation outside of Macon, Georgia.

“I’m playing tree farmer today,” says Leavell, who will be coming to WinstonSalem in a visit that brings together both of his passions — blues and forestry —

when he participates in a panel discussion on sustainable forestry and environmental stewardship on Thursday, Nov. 10, and then performs a solo piano show at The Barn at Reynolda Village as a part of the new “More Barn” concert series on Friday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m.

You might say the blues are a precious American cultural resource, something to be preserved and celebrated like this country’s vast and delicate forests, something that’s at the heart of a lot we surround ourselves with, something that gets taken for granted even. In that regard, Leavell’s involvement on the forthcoming blues-centric Stones album and his work in forestry and conservation all fit in with his sense of place, history and the land. Leavell has written several books including an autobiography, books on sustainable forestry and a children’s book about tree farming.

Leavell’s most recent record, 2014’s Back to the Woods, is — much like the Stones record — a tribute to the roots of the blues. In this case Leavell made an album honoring the masters of blues piano, a genre and style that often gets overshadowed.

“When people think of the blues, the first thing they think of is usually the guitar,” says Leavell. “Rarely do they think of the piano, and I wanted to correct that because the piano has played a significant role in the development of the blues.”

Some of the giants of the blues — players who are known primarily for their guitar work — were also piano players.

Skip James and Leadbelly both made recordings playing piano, and the degree to which their piano playing informed their guitar work, or vice versa, is interesting to contemplate, with rapid runs and sudden stops opening up spaces in their songs.

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When people talk about the fundamental influence that the blues has had on genres like jazz, they’re often referring to the harmonic and melodic logic of the blues, but there are whole styles of blues piano with connections to ragtime, barrelhouse, boogie-woogie and stride, that have a direct connection to jazz.

Leavell’s record serves to reorient the ears of blues fans to the keyboard.

“The whole purpose was to bring to light the piano,” says Leavell.

To prepare for the record, Leavell says his son-in-law, Steve Bransford, whose field is American history, assembled CDs with over a hundred pre-War piano blues recordings on them, and Leavell spent time soaking them up.

“I went through a process of riding around, mainly in my pickup truck, listening to this material,” says Leavell.

The experience left the pianist with a few other ideas for future projects. There’s enough material to do a second volume of piano blues, especially since Leavell didn’t even address the monumental legacy of New Orleans piano blues, with figures like Jelly Roll Morton and Professor Longhair looming large among pianists.

Another idea that the project suggested was something on the tradition of gospel piano as it relates to rock and roll.

“When you think of rock-and-roll piano, so much of it comes from the church,” says Leavell, referring to Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Billy Preston and Ray Charles.

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ethic underneath his rock-steady exterior.

In addition to his forestry, music and writing projects, Leavell also helped launch Mother Nature Network, mnn.com, a site for environmental news and information.

And he’s also done some music instruction, passing on what he knows, in the form of IRockU, a site devoted to Leavell’s rock piano lessons.

Leavell, who grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, started learning his chords, voicings, scales and finger exercises while sitting on the bench beside his mother, who played piano at home, but he also picked up a lot from listening to the radio — to gospel, blues, early rock and country.

“I am who I am because of the way I’ve grown up,” says Leavell. “I grew up listening to Southern music, whether it be country or rhythm and blues or soul, all of those things, but I also listened to the British Invasion — the Stones, Beatles, Zombies, Dave Clark Five” says Leavell.

That combination might make Leavell perfectly suited to understand what an English rock band steeped in the blues is looking for when they want a keyboardist to flesh out their sound.

“My fingers have a Southern accent,” says Leavell. !

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Thu Nov 3

[CHOICE BEATS] Upcoming shows you should check out

[CONCERTS] Compiled by Alex Eldridge

CHARLOTTE

THE FILLMORE www.lincolntheatre.com NOVEMBER

We 2 KEVIN DEVINE & THE GODDAMN BAND

w/Julien Baker/Pinegrove/Petal

T h 3 THE REVIVALISTS

w/Stop Light Orchestra

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Nov 2: Switchfoot and Relient K Nov 2: The Revivalists w/ Stop Light Observations Nov 3: Kevin Devine & The Goddamn Band, Julien Baker, Pinegrove, & Petal Nov 4: Flagship w/ Numbo & Landless Nov 5: Ghost Nov 6: Sonata Arctica Nov 9: Reel Big Fish Nov 9: Fitz & The Tantrums

The Revivalists Thu Nov 10

F r 4 GF*W 4 Year Anniversary Bash 9p Sa 5 START MAKING SENSE w/HmfO (TALKING HEADS Tribute)

Th 10 TAB BENOIT w/Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos / Dead 27’s 7p

Fr 11 BOULEVARDS

w/TOW3RS / Hotline 8p Sa 12 MOON TAXI w/ELEL Tu 15 THE MEDITATIONS w/Pure Fiyah

Th 17 STICK FIGURE

Fr 18 THE BREAKFAST CLUB

w/Dirty White Girls (Foreigner) Sa 19 THE MANTRAS w/Urban Soil ELM / Psylo Joe

Sa 20 JON BELLION We 23 SEVEN LIONS Fr 25 CAPITAL CITY REGGAE FEST!

w/Ras Medy/Crucial Fiya/Africa King

Su 27 AFTON MUSIC SHOWCASE DECEMBER

T h 1 JGBCB (Jerry Garcia Band Tribute) F r 2 THE BLACK LILLIES Sa 3 DOPAPOD

w/Pigeons Playing Pingpong F r 9 THE SHAKEDOWN (Van Morrison) Sa 10 SHOOT TO THRILL w/ Dixie Dust

Su 11 AFTON MUSIC SHOWCASE Tu 13 JASON BOLAN & SHOOTER JENNINGS We 14 THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS & TURKUAZ Sa 17 YARN & DUNE DOGS Su 18 DELTA RAE w/Penny & Sparrow Sa 31 BIG SOMETHING JANUARY

Sa 7 WINTER METAL FEST Th 12 THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS Fr 13 ZOSO Led Zeppelin Experience Sa 14 ZOSO Led Zeppelin Experience 3 - 3 WHO’S BAD Michael Jackson Trib 3 - 4 LOS LONELY BOYS 4 - 2 2 Y&T Adv. Tickets @Lincolntheatre.com & Schoolkids Records All Shows All Ages

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Sat Nov 12

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Tab Benoit

TWC ARENA

CARRIE PAZ

The Tasting Room (901 S. Chapman St. Greensboro) Friday Nov. 4 7 p.m.

“Carrie Pazdziora was born in northeastern North Carolina, where the grass is always green but the blues are at your heels. Solid ground is scarce, so she dug her roots deep into the muddy waters of the Perquimans River, and eventually blossomed into folk music with a touch of the Carolina blues. Having since lived in Nashville and Chicago, and roamed from Paris to Singapore, she has now found a home in Greensboro, NC, where she writes and performs regularly at local venues and events.

“Pazdziora’s music is mostly sensitive folk with a gentle acoustic guitar, more plucked than strummed, and her pure and clear voice climbing high in places, and doubled up in dusky harmonies elsewhere. The songs tend to use imagery from nature - stars, ocean, sand, wind - to sketch out sentiments of wonder at the cosmos sand our place in it, but beyond that they’re also about love and unity... (She) manages to take something that’s seemingly slight and find surprising weight to it.” (John Adamian, YES! Weekly) - via Facebook

Moon Taxi

Fri Nov 11

Boulevards BEAR STEVENS

Thu Nov Bull’s 17 Tavern (408 W. 4th St.

Winston-Salem) Friday Nov. 4 10 p.m.

“Bear Stevens is the moniker of North Carolina native, Steven Bernard Hall, Jr. Bernard, meaning “bold as a bear,” has been the Hall family middle name for five generations, down to his great-great grandfather.

With influences like Jackson Browne, Noah Gundersen, and James Taylor, Stevens’ self-described “southern folk” music is not quite Americana, but not quite pop. Imagine Jason Isbell wrote a song for James Taylor.

That’s Bear Stevens.

Amidst touring full time, Bear’s debut record, “Sing Me Loud,” was released in 2014, and he is currently producing a brand new EP.” - via Facebook !

Stick Figure

Fri Nov 18

Breakfast Club

DURHAM

CAROLINA THEATRE 309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Nov 4: 1964 The Tribute Nov 10: Eric Johnson

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Nov 4: Bob Dylan and His Band Nov 9: Vince Gill

GREENSBORO

CAROLINA THEATRE 310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Nov 11: Joe Pug

GREENSBORO COLISEUM 1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Nov 5: Casting Crowns

HIGH POINT

HIGH POINT THEATRE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Nov 11: George Winston

RALEIGH

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Twin City Stage travels to 18th century for love story: Sense and Sensibility coming to the Triad

by Lenise Willis

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Lenise Willis

Contributing columnist

fter a holiday of scares and ghouls, Twin City Stage is livening the mood with a classic love story. Anyone who is a fan of the famed Pride and Prejudice, or even just of love or a simpler time, will enjoy the light-hearted Sense and Sensibility, adapted from Jane

Austen’s novel.

Following the lives of the Dashwood sisters, both of age to marry, the play is a quick-paced romantic comedy set in late 18th century England. Audiences will fall in love with the levelheaded and practical Elinor, who falls in love with the quiet, bumbling Edward, and romantic Marianne, who is swept off her feet by the dashing and mysterious Willoughby. But the sisters soon turn to sense and sensibility in the face of love and heartache.

“Sense and Sensibility certainly has characters that are similar to those in Pride and Prejudice, but they also have unique characteristics that are all their own,” said Mark Pirolo, director. “Fans of Pride and Prejudice will certainly find much to love about the Dashwood sisters and their journey towards true happiness.

“I’m very attracted to the story. I enjoy the triumph of both Elinor and Colonel Brandon’s love over seeming impossibility and adversity.”

Pairing off for the play are Sarah Jones and Alex Nedvidek as Marianne Dashwood and John Willoughby, and Linda Shillito and Bo Yokely as Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferrars.

“Everyone has had a lot of time together to become acquainted and comfortable with one another, and those bonds translate well on stage,” said Linda Shillito, who performs as Elinor. “We have had the opportunity to laugh, cry, and find joy with one another almost every evening.”

“I think we have some great chemistry,” added Alex Nedvidek (John Willoughby).

“I really think the dynamic between Linda (Elinor), Sarah (Marianne) and myself has developed nicely.”

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“Willoughby is a very charismatic character, and there is this great juxtaposition between my relationship with each of the sisters,” he added. “Marianne shares my disposition and wit, and trusts me completely, whereas Elinor is a much more serious character, so she gets a lot of playful antagonizing from the pair of us, which really only accentuates the underlying distrust of Willoughby and that works really well.”

Though the play is based on an earlier novel by Austen, Pride and Prejudice fans will still enjoy some of the same sentiments, like the period romance story and the unlikely pairing of lovers meant to be. In its essence, the play is simply an enjoyable love story. As Pirolo says, “the title says it all.” Elinor relies on her good sense and her stoic acceptance, which she feels she cannot change, while Marianne’s sensibilities lead her to impulsively leap into situations with a romantic and naive vision of the world. In the end, both realize that their paths lie somewhere in

between the two extremes.

“I very much enjoy the period aspect of the play,” Shillito said. “As an Austen fan, it has been such fun to feel as though we have been dropped right into her story.

As if the accent and clothing were not enough of a draw, Elinor’s poise, strength and caring make her an enviable character to portray.

“I have always been a fan of historical romantic fiction, and Austin’s Pride and Prejudice is no exception. Sense and Sensibility shares many parallels with Austen’s other works, including strong familial bonds, heartbreak and romance.” !

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Guilford College Theatre continues its haunting drama this week, Thursday through Sunday. Woyzeck, an adaptation, follows the life of a common soldier who begins to see apocalyptic visions after a medical experiment.

Performances are in the Sternberger Auditorium on the campus of Guilford College.

New on Thursday, North Carolina A&T State University presents Resisting Arrest, Poems to Stretch the Sky for a free performance. The production is at 7 p.m. in Auditorium A22218 in the General Classroom Building on campus.

The staged reading of the anthology, which features the work of dozens of poets, including three Pulitzer Prize winners, brings to light the issues of violence against the African-American community. The publisher, Jacar Press, is donating the proceeds from the anthology to a scholarship fund run by the Urban League. The presentation will be followed by an audience discussion.

Also continuing this week is Barn Dinner Theatre’s high-energy musical revue: Love Machine The Musical.

Written, directed and choreographed by local playwright Nathan Alston, the fun-filled production, highlighting the soulful Motown hits of the 60s and 70s, runs this weekend through Nov. 22.

Community Theatre of Greensboro is livening up the stage this week, as well, with its production of Sister Act: The Musical, which runs Wednesday through Nov. 13. The North Carolina premiere uses powerful gospel music and outrageous dance routines to tell the moving story of a woman hiding in a convent. The musical comedy is based on the popular 1992 film.

Monday, High Point Theatre will host The Aluminum Show for one performance only. The interactive experience includes a compelling mix of tightly choreographed dance, pulsating music, puppetry, remote-controlled critters and playful characters. The tale is that of a man on his incredible journey to a parallel universe—a planet made entirely of aluminum.

Next week, Theatre Alliance presents Sunset Boulevard, a drama about a former silent movie star whose glory has faded with the introduction of “talkies.”

Also coming soon, Nov. 17-20, is Bennett College’s Little Theatre’s production of What, which examines the personal side of the Black Lives Matter movement. !

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Hell’s a-poppin’ After a seven-year break – and skipping over The Lost Symbol – Tom Hanks and filmmaker Ron Howard reunite for Inferno, the third in the bigscreen series based on Dan Brown’s bestsellers.

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The earlier films, The DaVinci Code (2006) and Angels & Demons (2009), were big-budget blockbusters, but they also tended to be overlong and overly complicated. In contrast, Inferno is the cheapest (reportedly $75 million) and shortest (121 minutes) of the lot – and, by default, probably the best, although it’s

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not a very close race.

Hanks again brings his patented everyman appeal and authority to the role of Harvard professor Robert Langdon, once again caught up in international skullduggery rooted in Italian history (more precisely Dante Alighieri), aided and abetted by young doctor Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), but hampered by an unfortunate, inconvenient case of amnesia.

Although he dabbled in fantasy earlier in his career (Cocoon, Willow), Inferno sees Howard dipping his directorial toes in the horror genre, with some genuinely nightmarish imagery fueled by Langdon’s head trauma. There’s also a big Hitchcockian element to the proceedings. (Then again, steal from the best …)

Not unlike Brown’s novels, the film is heavy on exposition and on flashbacks, some of which hamper the story’s momentum. Langdon must once again call

upon his expertise to outwit and elude his pursuers and unlock a serpentine puzzle, some pieces of which are trapped in his compromised memory. At stake is the very future of mankind, with the villains basically attempting to put the match to Dante’s Inferno and cause a devastating conflagration.

Other interested parties include Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy and Sidse Babett Knudsen, while Ben Foster (whose character exits early but turns up in flashbacks) plays the billionaire conspiracy theorist who masterminded the devious scheme.

The principal locations – Florence, Venice and Istanbul – are picturesque, and the film’s lessened budget is in no ways noticeable. Inferno is a narrative mess at times, but it looks good, kills time, and (once again) sees Tom Hanks hold everything together. Even when all seems lost, he’s on top of things. !

Reacher feature As sequels go, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is essentially on par with its 2012 precursor, which didn’t exactly set a particularly high standard.

Once again, producer/star Tom Cruise takes center stage as the title character, the tight-lipped, tightly-coiled ex-soldier who occasionally takes assignments on Uncle Sam’s behalf.

The film reunites Cruise with screenwriter/director Edward Zwick, with whom he previously worked in The Last Samurai (2009) – a good-looking although not especially good film (Ken Watanabe’s Oscar-nominated supporting turn notwithstanding). The proceedings here are competently handled, although Jack Reacher: Never Go Back doesn’t aspire to much beyond said competence.

When Reacher’s current military contact, Maj. Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders) is framed for espionage, Reacher springs into action – springing her from prison and making mincemeat out of soldiers and baddies alike. Said baddies, including Holt McCallany, Robert Knepper and Patrick Heusinger (as a black-clad assassin known only as “The Hunter”), are mixed up in a covert scheme involving a corrupt military contractor and the recent murder of two soldiers in Afghanistan.

Rest assured, this cover-up will require more murders, and more derring-’do from Reacher and Turner, who’s no shrinking violet when it comes to fisticuffs. Along for the ride is Samantha Dayton (screen newcomer Danika Yarosh), a rebellious teen who may or may not be Reacher’s

illegitimate daughter. Needless to say, she’ll become an important pawn as the plot progresses.

At least Zwick keeps things moving, and although this is a Tom Cruise vehicle, the supporting actors get their moments.

Smulders and Yarosh bring a bit extra to their characterizations, and Heusinger tries to add some shading to his teethgnashing antagonist. Ditto Aldis Hodge, who brings up the rear as the oft-thwarted officer charged with capturing Reacher and Turner.

It’s no surprise how everything turns out, leaving the door wide open for future Jack Reacher films, but that decision rests entirely on the box-office results. !

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Gettin’ Jiggy with Iggy With a nod toward the Maysles Brothers’ classic Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter (1970), writer/director Jim Jarmusch’s Gimme Danger is a rockin’ romp down Memory Lane with those raucous godfathers of punk, Iggy Pop and The Stooges.

With customarily quirky flourishes and a treasure trove of vintage footage, Jarmusch (an admitted Stooges fan) covers the entire history of The Stooges – the highs and lows, the hits and misses, and everything in-between. Even those with no interest in the band – or punk music – can enjoy this comprehensive chronicle, told in the words of The Stooges themselves.

For all the good humor and warm nostalgia, there’s a serious side, too. Heroin addiction, mismanagement, and the eventual implosion of the band in the 1970s saw the members scattered in all directions, some trying to forge solo careers, form new bands, or simply come back down to Earth, as it were. Although Pop was the front man, the surviving members of the band (some of whom have died in the interim) offer their own reminiscences and assessment of their place in history.

There is, however, a happy ending in the reunion of The Stooges in 2003 and their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. Today, Pop and guitarist James Williamson are the last Stooges standing, and both are content to leave the legacy as it stands. Gimme Danger is both enlightening and entertaining, as well as a fitting (and frequently fun) tribute to its subject.

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Despite the season, the Ice Queen expands her realm

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s anyone who’s seen the long lines for her ice cream “sammiches” knows, Christine Catania is the (Ice) Queen of the Triad’s renaissance in vehicular cuisine. Now she’s expanding her realm of frosty treats. Before getting to that, I ask something I’d wondered five years ago when I met a lovely young woman in a short bus decorated with giant fiberglass cones. What made her decide to do this?

“I knew there was something I was destined for, yet had no clue what. In May of 2011, I had to jump into something new. I was working full time at M’Couls and asked Simonne [McClinton, the owner] if I could reduce my hours to research and plan my future. Being awesome, she said yes. Checking Craigslist for food truck ads, I read “Ice cream truck - Pleasant Garden” and knew she would be mine before I even saw her. She was ugly as sin, but that little bus was what I’d been searching for. I bought her the

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next day, named her Snowflake, and with help from friends, got her painted and cleaned up. We had our first event together on July 2 of 2011 and have celebrated our anniversary with ice cream every year since.

I still talk to her when we’re driving. That girl has soul and has saved my butt on several occasions.

Shortycake is her younger sister and is the baby of my partner, Jeff Matthews. He turned a daycare bus into a classy and extremely welldesigned ice cream parlor.

Shortycake may be the newer and fancier truck, but Snowflake will always be my girl.”

Anybody who’s heard Christine laugh or give commands to her dogs knows she’s a Jersey gal. “I was born in Fort Lee and went to school up there until my

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freshman year in college.

I transferred to UNCG for interior architecture in my sophomore year, and after taking a few years off I graduated from the Art Department in 2001.”

She has no plans for sending her growing fleet of ice cream trucks on neighborhood routes.

“I tried my first year. You know how annoying the ice cream music is when it passes your house? Multiply that time 100,000.

Christine Catania is expanding her Ice Queen Parlor Neither Snowflake nor into the Greensboro Coliseum.

Shortycake will ever play that brain-eating music Reversing the usual trend, Christine again.” just expanded to a literal brick and morSpeaking of eating, I ask her to comtar location with her new concession at ment on Greensboro’s food truck scene, the Greensboro Coliseum. When asked which was practically non-existent when how that came about, she says she was she started out. invited out of the blue.

“It’s grown so much! The city seems “When I got the call, I wondered if like it’s trying to be supportive while not someone was trying to punk me. We upsetting the brick and mortars. It’s a met with the concessions group and difficult balance to maintain, but they’re Mike from the Coliseum. They wanted getting there. LeBauer Park and the a local business with a good footing in Tracks will hopefully be places that can the community to join their group. We host food trucks regularly. Our trucks had our first event on Oct. 6. There’s a mostly do corporate events during the permanent kiosk by section 130 and we week and food truck festivals on the have Flurry , the cart, by section 112. We weekends, but we do try to squeeze in still have a lot to learn, but we’re there. some time to be available for Snowflake “Since we’ve been doing special events stalkers to get a sammich without waitfor years for big companies like VF Corp, ing in a huge line. Having our second Cone Health and Krispy Kreme, we’re truck, Shortycake, is going to make a huge prepared for the mad rush during breaks difference in next years event planning.”

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and also the slow downtime in between.

It’s a perfect expansion for the Ice Queen to move into a somewhat stationary location. We’re not very good at being still.

It’s such a different feel, working inside a building and not in a truck that moves a little with every step. So many things about the business have to be tweaked to fit into the new suit that is the Coliseum. It’s still all very Ice Queen and won’t become something too different from our roots. The most popular Sammiches like the Cookie Monster and Kermint are on the menu as well as scoops. We’re so excited to be there and will still strive to bring a smile to everyone’s face when they swing by. Making each guest happy was my ultimate goal when I started the business and won’t ever change.”

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at the Coliseum has been extremely supportive and welcoming. It’s a great group of people over there. We have the food truck family and now we’re gaining another.”

Late Fall and Winter are her offseason, but she’s not taking it easy just yet. “We’ll be streamlining everything we need at the Coliseum and will be open for the Disney on Ice, the holiday concerts, college basketball games, and almost anything else that will be going on in the main arena. We also hope to set up in the Special Events Center. Other than that, we’ll be catching up on things that I don’t get to do during the super busy warm months. Maybe we’ll even go on a vacation!”

“The trucks will be hibernating, but wake up pretty easily if anybody wants them to come out for a special event they’re putting together. The good thing about ice cream in the winter is that it doesn’t melt too fast!” !

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BY RICH LEWIS

reensboro might very well be the most important crossroads in Southern breakfast staples. The city is almost exactly in the middle between some of the most famed biscuit and donut makers in the world but you really can’t get the best of both in the same location.

Well, at least that’s the case until Saturday, Nov. 5. On that day Rise will open in Greensboro’s Friendly Center. This newest location of the growing North Carolina-based early day treats chain will be offering great upscale donuts and biscuits to suit everyone’s taste, whether savory or sweet.

Owners Rick Robinson and Ken Priest were looking for a good location to open a new Rise location in Greensboro and heard about the new building being finished in Friendly Center just between Whole Foods and the Apple Store. “The fact that they had a spot in Friendly Center and right there in that place was just great,” Robinson said. “My dad grew up here in Greensboro and with us visiting our grandparents a lot, I knew what a big deal Friendly Center was. And I think we’ll fit in well, because good donuts make for good neighbors.”

Robinson and his partner already own the Rise franchise serving the Carrboro/ Chapel Hill area (and an upcoming one in Winston-Salem), but they’ve been in business together for some time, starting in the San Francisco Bay Area and moving on the New York City before heading back to Robinson’s native North Carolina roots.

“My experience had always been in the back of the house as a chef while Ken has over 30 years of experience working the front of the house in systems operations and hospitality,” Robinson said. His early work with the founder of Rise led to the partners’ investment in the franchise. The change in how the restaurants operated were also a major plus for them.

Robinson explained that high end quick serve restaurants like this one were quite attractive to people who had spent a lot of years working in the traditional restaurant industry. Customer interface opportunities and artisan food are great, but the change in working hours is a welcome change to many. While Rise will be open seven days a week, the shop will only be open from 7 am to 2 pm each day.

“While that means our workers could work another job if they wanted to,”

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Robinson said, “it also means that they could get off work early enough to pick up the kids from school and have some family time.”

The commitment to a good working environment is also a commitment to producing great food. All the biscuits and donuts will be made on site and the menu is extensive. There’s also a commitment to local sourcing of as many ingredients as possible, like North Carolina-made country ham and sausage.

So, about that food. On the savory side of the menu, they offer the classic biscuit pairings like country ham, bacon or sausage, plus their own fried chicken (brined and breaded in house). You could also choose for a bit of nostalgia and have a slice of fried bologna on your biscuit or go the adventurous route and try their eggplant “bacon” strips. There’s also a potato hash cake with cheddar cheese and should you really want a taste of the South, just ask them to add pimento cheese or a fried egg to your biscuit. If you’re sneaking in around lunchtime, load that biscuit up with lettuce, tomato and red onion with a bit of Duke’s mayo and you’re good to go. You can also get a savory twist on the classic pigs in a blanket favorite, try the mac and cheese biscuit or go all in with a fried green tomato biscuit with pimento cheese and arugula.

And then there’s the donuts.

There’s a glazed donut that will rival the best the region has ever produced as well as plenty of chocolate iced ones and old fashioned donuts with lemon icing, cinnamon twists and even a vanilla iced classic with sprinkles for those times when you just need something to brighten the day.

There are a number of new wave donut types available, too. Crème Brule ones are right there alongside maple bacon bars, chocolate chocolate cake donuts, hearty apple fritters and a pineapple-basil filled donut with pistachios. You can bet there will be daily specials as well, both classic and experimental. !

RICH LEWIS is a father, husband, writer and cook who makes his home in Greensboro, NC.

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Rise will be holding its Grand Opening on Saturday, November 5 at Friendly Center. Hours of operation will run 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. every day. They are available for catering and large pre-orders. You can learn more about them at www.risebiscuitsdonuts.com.

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BY KRISTI MAIER In a fun, hush-hush move, Crafted-The Art of the Taco Winston-Salem slid open its doors for the final day of its soft opening over the weekend. The restaurant will be officially open on Wednesday, Nov. 2 beginning with lunch service.

We snuck in on Saturday to give a few things a try. Lovers of the Greensboro location can expect to see the same great tacos and appetizers, like the taquitos and the mason jar of bacon along with a selection of burgers. Craft cocktails, North Carolina and regional craft beer too. The decor is a slight departure from

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Crafted Winston is likely the most anticipated new restaurant opening in quite a while downtown so expect it to be busy, but you should enjoy the communal atmosphere and attention to service that the restaurant is known for. Patio dining is available when the weather is nice. !

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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) This week you probably have the pleasure of opening your home to others. You are serving as guide and negotiator to help people become acquainted and share ideas. Your creativity is readily available and you can easily solve any problems that may arise.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) This is an opportune time to clarify your personal feelings and convey them to loved ones without creating a fuss or controversy. It is also a good time to use your creative talent. You probably don’t realize how creative you can be since you don’t paint or write music. But it is there.

Your problem solving ability is great.

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[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) You may not feel physically your best this week. Even so, this is a time of pleasure and maybe a little excitement concerning a significant other. Let your mind be open to unusual suggestions. Make it a point to interject new spark into the usual routine.

Try something new over the weekend.

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Meanwhile there is a sparkle in the works concerning a lover or a creative project.

Your eye for the artistic is working with flair. It is upbeat and contemporary.

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There appears to be a communications project, perhaps concerning the law, publishing, the Internet, or a paper to write that nags at your backside. There is no doubt you will accomplish the goal immediately in front of you, but it will feel like pulling teeth as you do so.

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This is likely temporary. A casual friend or a group involvement offers something interesting and unusual to do. You need a break from the routine. Try a new restaurant or go for a walk somewhere that you’ve never been.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) This is a relatively quiet period. It may be a good time to organize your estate, or clean out closets and do a give-away that will cheer your soul. Spend some time in the quiet and concentrate on connecting to your deeper self—the side of you who doesn’t often get a word into your thoughts.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) There is a lot of chatter all around you. Some of it may be disturbing to your sense of comfort. It is like nibbling ducks at your ankles. Don’t buy into it or worry overmuch. The dust will settle soon and whatever the event, it will be over in a few days’ time. It’s possible you will have a short bout of a health problem.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) A 2nd tier friend may hurt your feelings this week. It’s old stuff. Try to let it go. You are feeling restless and need to try something new. Commute by a different route or go somewhere you have never visited before. It is important to make note of these restless feelings and do something about them. Otherwise you can become hard to live with, even for yourself.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This week offers a good opportunity to refresh your self-care regimen. Perhaps you will start a new program of diet and exercise.

Helping yourself to better health is on your mind so don’t ignore it. We need to take advantage of the moment when it comes.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Your partner may be a source of irritation this week. There’s no point in nagging or engaging in meaningless tiffs. Take some time for yourself and do something enjoyable on your own. If you think about it, you probably need some alone time anyway. Maybe that is why the Other feels irritating.

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My husband of a year is very tight with cash. It’s always save, save, save. I recently traded in my car, and I needed $1,000 more for the new one, but he never offered to give it to me. My parents ended up paying it. I make my own money, but not a lot, and I’m wondering what kind of financial arrangement makes sense in a marriage. — Confused Your husband comes into the living room, and there you are — sitting on the floor with a Starbucks cup and a cardboard sign that says, “Anything helps. God bless.”

Unfortunately, the passive-aggressiveness of the wife-as-panhandler approach is toxic in the long run. However, the theatrics would get your message across better than the nonverbal forms of communication you’ve probably been using — pouting and closing cabinet doors a little more forcefully than usual.

Like a lot of women, you may assume that whatever subtle emotional cues you can read, men can also read. However, research by social psychologist Judith A. Hall finds that women are far better than men at spotting and decoding nonverbal signals in facial expressions and body language.

Women’s having evolved greater aptitude for this makes sense, as newborn infants generally aren’t in the habit of expressing their needs with, “Hey, mom-lady...would you grab me a pack of smokes and a beer?”

So, yes, if you want something from your husband, you do have to put that out there in spoken-word form. But beyond that, you two need to sit down and hammer out a fiscal policy for your relationship — where the lines get drawn on “yours”/”mine”/”ours” and “what if one of us has a financial crisis and needs an alternative to, oh, stealing a mule to get to work every day?”

In coming up with this policy, it’s important to go beyond the cold dollarsand-cents view and discuss each other’s attitudes surrounding money, especially any issues and fears. Then, when there’s a conflict, each of you can maybe start with a little compassion for the other’s point of view.

It also might help to understand that our views about money are influenced by genetics and what behavioral ecologists call our “life history strategy” — a term that relates to whether our upbringing was stable and “safe” or risky and unpredictable. Child development researcher Jay Belsky and his colleagues find that a stable childhood environment tends to lead to a more future-oriented approach (saving, for

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example), whereas, say, growing up ducking gunfire or just having divorced parents and getting moved around a lot tends to lead to a more now-oriented approach (spendorama!).

Whatever your past, going off into the sunset being chased by creditors can be a marriage killer. Family studies researcher Jeffrey Dew finds that married couples with a bunch of “consumer debt” (owing on credit cards, loans for consumer goods, and past-due bills) fight more about everything — from sex to chores to in-laws.

And research by sociologist Carolyn Vogler, among others, finds that couples who pool their money (like their money got married, too!) tend to be happier. I would guess that the spirit in this is important — going all in financially...”us against the world!” instead of, “If you lose your job and can’t pay your share of the rent, don’t worry, baby. I’ll help you pitch your tent on the front lawn.”

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Pot is legal where I live, and it helps ease my knee pain from years of running. I’ve noticed that it also makes me feel more sensual. I want to share the marijuana experience with my boyfriend when we make love, but he says pot (even the “energizing” strains) makes him “inert” and “obsessively analytic.” How do I get him to be more openminded? — Merry Jane Pot does open your boyfriend’s mind — to a four-hour rumination on the meaning of burritos.

Welcome to what biologist Ernst Mayr called “human variability” — the existence of individual differences. We see it in how some of us enjoy a surprise kick of peanut butter in our chocolate milkshake, while for others, it’s “Wow...look how I’ve swelled up, just like a human balloon.” Likewise, research on the cognitive impact of pot by neuroscientist Antonio Verdejo-Garcia shows varying effects on research participants’ “sustained attention” (among other things) — in line with which one of two genotypes they have.

Consider that being nagged to start smoking pot is probably as annoying as being nagged to stop. Sure, you have the best of intentions — sharing your sensual experience with him. And, if he smokes pot, you can — after he stops communing with the rug, asking the little fibers, “Did you ever consider that the tortilla is the perfect metaphor for human consciousness?” !

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